pisa.select.merge: Select and merge data

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Select and merge data

Description

pisa.select.merge selects and merges data from PISA. Achievement and weight variables (all of them) are selected by default.

Usage

pisa.select.merge(folder=getwd(), student.file, parent.file=c(), school.file=c(), 
countries, student=c(), parent, school)

Arguments

folder	Directory path where the PISA data are located, if all the data are located in the same folder.
student.file	Student file name if 'folder' is provided, otherwise full path name of student dataset (required argument).
parent.file	Parent file name if 'folder' is provided, otherwise full path name of parent dataset.
school.file	School file name if 'folder' is provided, otherwise full path name of school dataset.
countries	The selected countries, supplied with the abbreviation (e.g., countries=c("DEU", "NOR") or codes. If no countries are selected, all are selected.
student	The data labels for the selected student variables.
parent	The data labels for the selected parental variables.
school	The data labels for the selected school variables.

Value

pisa.select.merge returns a data frame with the selected data from PISA.

See Also

timssg4.select.merge, timssg8.select.merge, pirls.select.merge

Examples

## Not run: 
pisa <- pisa.select.merge(folder=getwd(),
        school.file="INT_SCQ12_DEC03.sav",
        student.file="INT_STU12_DEC03.sav",
        parent.file="INT_PAQ12_DEC03.sav",
        student= c("IMMIG", "ESCS", "ST04Q01", "ST61Q04", "ST62Q01", "ST08Q01"),
        parent = c("PARINVOL", "PARSUPP"),
        school = c("STRATIO", "SCHAUTON", "CLSIZE"),
        countries = c("HKG", "USA", "SWE", "POL", "PER"))

## End(Not run)

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